Long before fantasy fiction was ‘a thing’, and The Hobbit and Game of Thrones popularised mythical beasts on screens around the world, Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges compiled his own bestiary, The Book of Imaginary Beings, brimful with fabulous animals. They were ‘fabulous’, of course, because they were the stuff of fables – often based on tales from long ago and far away. Mythical creatures of imagination.

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美女在兽中

在幻想小说成为“一件事”之前，《霍比特人和权力的游戏》在全世界的银幕上广泛传播神话中的野兽，阿根廷作家豪尔赫·路易斯·博尔赫斯（Jorge Luis Borges）编写了他自己的兽人《虚构的人之书》，其中充满了神话般的动物。当然，它们是“神话般的”，因为它们是寓言中的东西-通常是基于很久以前和很远的故事。想象力的神话生物。